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Podcast on FIre's Taiwan Noir #30: Book of Heroes and A Heroic FIght
It seems like it's been literal ages since my old pal Kenny B and I had one of our cozy fireside chats about violent and weird Taiwanese movies. Until now, that is, because yesterday we posted a new...
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Django The Bastard (Italy, 1969)
If you prefer your Italian Westerns dark, as I tend to, the waning years of the sixties is your vintage of choice. It was during that period—roughly all of 1969 through the first half of 1970—that some...
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This is why you have ears
If you have a long drive planned for this holiday weekend, 4DK is here to help that time fly by.First of all is the latest episode of the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER PODCAST, which has just been posted...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER Podcast #26: "My World Fell Down"
Hey, do you remember "A Little Bit O' Soul"? "Beach Baby"? "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat?" Well, those songs were all written by the same man. So was "My World Fell Down", which, unless you're an...
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Get in the holiday spirit with Podcast On Fire
Kenny B has just posted his annual Christmas episode over at Podcast on Fire. This one features Ken, me, and fellow co-hosts Paul Quinn and Tom K-W cutting up and waxing eloquent about all things Asian...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER Podcast #27: "Lonely Boy"
Sorry to be late posting this month's Friday's Best Pop Song Ever podcast. My time machine got stuck in 1976 and I had to fight off an army of Civil War reenactors in order to make my way home. My...
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So... looking for more good Korean movies?
Sunday’s Oscar upset was not only an overdue recognition of Bong Joon Ho, who has been making superlative films ever since 2003’s Memories of Murder¸ but also of the South Korean movie industry as a...
View ArticleA Glass and a Cigarette (Egypt, 1955)
Despite being fronted by a trio of Egypt’s most beloved female entertainers, A Glass and a Cigarette, with its retrograde sexual politics, does women few favors. After all, what hoary old patriarchal...
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It's the FRIDAY'S BEST POP SONG EVER Podcast #28; "You Can't Put Your Arms...
I have no excuse adequately to explaining why I am posting the March episode of the Friday's Best Pop Song Ever podcast on April 17. All I can offer you by way of apology is the best episode I could...
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Retaliation (Japan, 1968)
By Hollywood standards, you’d think that Yasuharu Hasebe barely had time for a bathroom break between making 1967’s Massacre Gun and its sequel, Retaliation, which came out less than a year later. But...
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Time was a thing of the past
As the quarantine wore on and the routines that structured our lives faded from memory, there emerged a new conception of time—one appropriate for a moment in which an hour could seemingly last a day...
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No Sleep Since Brooklyn
It seems like just yesterday that my wife and I moved from San Francisco to Oakland, California--and, in truth, it was only a few year ago. Nevertheless, we have moved again; this time to Brooklyn, New...
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Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (United States, 1989)
NOTE: While going through some old papers recently, I came across this, my first published film review, which appeared in the SF Weekly in February of 1989. It concerns the Charles Bronson vehicle...
View ArticleBut It Was Everything
It is with a very heavy heart that I share the passing of Todd Stadtman, author of this blog as well as “The Lucha Diaries”. He passed away in Brooklyn, New York on January 9, 2021. We have lost a...
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